Ancient population · Chalcolithic

Albania (Late Neolithic–Chalcolithic)

Name: Albania (Late Neolithic–Chalcolithic) (Albania_LN_C)
Creator: Genoplot

Albania_LN_C

Albania (Late Neolithic–Chalcolithic) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Albania_LN_C), with 2 samples from Albania, dated to c. 4250–4150 BCE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Nea Nikomedeia (Early Neolithic, Greece), Turkey (Neolithic) and Sopot (Middle Neolithic, Croatia); the nearest living populations are Bulgaria N, Romania N and Macedonia N.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup G2a (2); its mtDNA haplogroups include HV4 and J1c.

Period: Chalcolithic
Date: c. 4250–4150 BCE
Country: Albania
Sampled near: Tren Cave 40.67, 20.98
Samples: 2
Published in: LazaridisReichScience2022
Catalogue: Albania_LN_C

Nearest populations

Distance between population averages in scaled G25 space, ×100. Lower is closer. It says who resembles this population, not who descends from it; an nMonte model tests that.

Ancient
#	Population	Distance
1	Nea Nikomedeia (Early Neolithic, Greece)`Greece_NeaNikomedeia_EN`	2.00
2	Turkey (Neolithic)`Turkey_N`	2.15
3	Sopot (Middle Neolithic, Croatia)`Croatia_MN_Sopot`	2.21
4	Marmara Ilipinar (Neolithic)`Marmara_Ilipinar_N`	2.25
5	Barcin (Late Neolithic, Turkey)`Turkey_Barcin_LN`	2.38
6	Cardial (Neolithic, Croatia)`Croatia_N_Cardial`	2.40
7	Serbia (Neolithic)`SRB_N`	2.47
8	Grad Starcevo Starcevo (Early Neolithic, Serbia)`Serbia_GradStarcevo_Starcevo_EN`	2.51
9	South (Neolithic, Italy)`Italy_South_N`	2.51
10	Grotta Continenza (Neolithic)`Grotta_Continenza_N`	2.53

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Bulgaria N`Bulgaria_N`	2.29
2	Romania N`Romania_N`	2.65
3	Macedonia N`Macedonia_N`	2.78
4	Croatia N`Croatia_N`	5.51
5	Sardinian`Sardinian`	8.04
6	Sardinia N`Sardinia_N`	9.40
7	Italian Calabria`Italian_Calabria`	11.98
8	Italian Jew`Italian_Jew`	11.98
9	Italian Campania`Italian_Campania`	12.02
10	French Corsica`French_Corsica`	12.02

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

2 men with a call

G2a2b2a G-Z6360
G2a2b2b1a1b G-F2572

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

Individuals 2

The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.

Sample	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA	mtDNA
`I13838`	M	5000-3500 BCE	Tren Cave	G2a2b2a G-Z6360	HV4
`I13840`	M	4313-4051 calBCE	Tren Cave	G2a2b2b1a1b G-F2572	J1c